Pope Benedict meets President Raul Castro in Havana

Pope Benedict has met Cuban President Raul Castro on the second day of his visit to the communist-run island. 

There have been suggestions that he could also meet Raul's brother, former President Fidel Castro.

After arriving in Havana, the pope prayed before a statue of the country's patron saint, and told a crowd he prayed for a Cuba "advancing along the ways of renewal and hope".

Cuban officials have insisted that political reform is not on the agenda.

Marino Murillo, one of Castro's vice-presidents and the "economics czar" in charge of liberalisation, told journalists the government was updating the Cuban economic model to make socialism sustainable.

"There will be no political reform in Cuba," he said.         Read Here